Re: Designer/Developer
Date: 1997/11/06
Message-ID: <01bceb01$1415d100$096fc589_at_RSNOWDEN.labinterlink.com>#1/1
Reverse Engineering in d2k is pretty simple. Since the tool is repository based, you need an instance to suck the schema into. I prefer an NT 7.3 box and I configure it with one huge rollback segment, since the rev eng process is like a big batch thing. Runs for a couple of hours for our system, which is 450 tables + many constraints. If you only want tables it can be pretty quick. Most important, it works. We had to abandon ERWin, since it would run for 8 hours and choke on such a large system.
Another feature I like is the Reconcile utility. You can take a model and compare it to a live schema. D2k will generate a script that will perform the ALTER commands to add columns, etc.
I can't say much about forms generation, but reverse and forward engineering work fine. Received on Thu Nov 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CET